Reply #84: Please point me to where you have made that acknowledgment.

[Greyskye]

I've read your posts for years on this issue, and I've never seen you say anything remotely close to that. Then again, that doesn't prove a thing, and I don't claim that it does.

And seriously, even if you grudgingly said that two months or two years ago in some obscure post - you say the exact opposite in almost every single post I've read from you regarding charters. Words matter. And your words figuratively say 'all charters are evil'. And that is a lie and a disservice to everyone working to create successful non-profit public charters.

You and some other posters want to keep the focus on the privately financed corporate raiders, the 'charter' schools that hire instructors with no teaching credentials. You want to focus on your own terrible local experiences, your community, your own kid. Oh wait, no you don't. You want to trash a system that you've never seen, in another state, that was set up in order to catch the kids that weren't being served by a one-size-fits-all mentality. You want to take kids who weren't being successful in a traditional setting who are now thriving, and dump them back into a system that has already chewed them up and spat them out because they didn't mesh well in the traditional school.

You mean well, Hannah Bell. But your methods are fatally flawed.